Location: Prayagraj (formerly the Allahabad District) / State of Tamil Nadu

Project 1: Empowering Women and Girls through Education, Well-Being and Income Enhancing Strategies

Project 2: Empowering Prison Inmates and Families

Partner: ACTS / KRUPA

The people of rural Uttar Pradesh are very poor. Girls and women face many inequalities, with limited or no schooling offered to girls. Domestic violence against women and girls is prevalent. Child marriage is illegal, but still happens a lot. ‘Dowries’ are banned by the government, but still continue between families. The people in this region often live in unsanitary conditions, suffer from malnutrition and have high maternal mortality rates.

Project One: Empowering Women and Girls through Education, Well-Being and Income Enhancing Strategies

Goal of the Project

This project is funded by ChildLink supporters and SHE supporters. The goal is to educate educate, train and build the financial capacity of highly vulnerable girls and women in semi-rural villages around Allahabad (northern India). This is to increase their independence and economic resilience.

Specific goals:

Progress Update (from July’20 till June’21)

To help educate, train and build the financial capacity of highly vulnerable girls and women in semi-rural villages in northern India, donate today.

Project Two: Empowering Prison Inmates and Families

Chennai is a city on the Bay of Bengal in the south-east of India, and is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu. The city is home to a museum showcasing the city’s roots as a British military garrison and East India Company trading outpost, when it was still called Madras. The Tamils form the majority of the population and more than 40% of the families live below the poverty line. Petty crime, especially theft of personal property, is common, particularly on trains or buses, but for foreigners it is one of the safest cities in India.

Goal of the Project

This Krupa project is funded by a private donor for work in prisons where the aim is to ensure the holistic development of prisoners in Tamil Nadu, to bring about transformation and integration of prison families into society. Families of prisoners face poverty, stigma and isolation from their community, and ex-prisoners find it difficult to get work which increases the chances of re-offending.

The Empowering Prison Inmates and Families project aims to address this through:

Progress Update (from April’20 till March’21)

To help educate, train and build the financial capacity of highly vulnerable girls and women in semi-rural villages in northern India, donate today.